Re: Five fingers?

Possibly, but three aren't as good for spreading the weight of a heavy load, which is what our very distant ancestors had five for.

Interestingly, even though some modern animals have evolved other ways of distributing that weight (the large flat feet of elephants, for example) most of them still show the remains of 5 fingers in their bones, and they do still have a support role inder the thick skin.

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Re: Five fingers?

Possibly, but three aren't as good for spreading the weight of a heavy load, which is what our very distant ancestors had five for.

Interestingly, even though some modern animals have evolved other ways of distributing that weight (the large flat feet of elephants, for example) most of them still show the remains of 5 fingers in their bones, and they do still have a support role inder the thick skin.

Yes, and whales still have rudimentary fingers and toes and so on.
Some dinosaurs were a lot bigger than elephants but they only had four toes, and only three of those were for walking. There's a thought... if humans were dinosaurs rather than mammals, would a violin have three strings?